Author

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame
  • This is a classic fantasy story about four animals who behave like humans. They talk, philosophize, and emphasize friendship but also keep their animal habits. They are Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger.

    There are some adult books read by children and some children’s books read by adults. However, this one appeals to both because it stresses a main theme of doing your best at all times, forgiving others, and setting a goal to make the world a better place.

    It is based in an English countryside with wonderful descriptions that make you feel as though you’re there with them. It has a wonderful read-and-listen-aloud feeling with good humor and imagination. We invite you to join us.

  • The Golden Age is a collection of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood, notable for their conception of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult “Olympians” who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young—a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors.

  • Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fables, fairy tales, and stories, all available in one audiobook. A Children's Listening Library: Volume 1 includes:

    1. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
    2. Selections from the Tales of Beatrix Potter
    3. Beauty & the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont 
    4. "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" by Peter Christen Asbj├©rnsen and J├©rgen Moe
    5. Cinderella based on Charles Perrault's version
    6. "The Frog Prince" and "Rumplestiltskin" by The Brothers Grimm 
    7. "The Land of the Blue Flower" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    8. "Racketty-Packetty House" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    9. Dollypogs by David Thorn
    10. The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
    11. "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning
    12. "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    13. "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
  • One Spring morning, Mole abandons his spring cleaning and surfaces into the sunlight and warm grass of a great meadow. Rambling busily along the hedgerows he comes all at once to the edge of a river. Mole is entranced. Here on the river bank he meets the Water Rat. Mole stays with the Water Rat in his snug waterside home where the river laps at the sill of the window and here he meets Ratty's friends: Badger who lives in the Wild Wood and the incorrigible Toad of Toad Hall.

    A timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. The story of Mole, Ratty, Badger,  and Toad and their escapades, whether messing about on the river or puttering about in Toad's shiny new car, cannot fail to enchant every listener.

    Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this dramatization for BBC Radio 4, including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole, and Terence Rigby as Albert, with Alan Bennett as the narrator.

  • When a dragon is discovered up on the Downs, the Boy is not in the least surprised. He's always known that cave was a dragon cave—it seems only right for a dragon to be living in it.

    The Boy decides to pay a visit to the cave, and he thinks he knows just what to expect. But this particular dragon is not a bit like the ones in fairy tales.

  • Since publication in 1908, The Wind in the Willows has established itself as one of the most popular children’s books ever written. Rat, Toad, Mole, and Badger are emotional, vibrant, and fully realized characters with their own share of flaws and virtues. They become loyal friends and meet strange and wonderful characters along their journey. The magical fantasy starts on the river bank and goes to the heights of Toad Hall, a truly fine mansion of many secret passages. All children will delight in this story and be taken away on the wings of imagination. 

  • The Wind in the Willows is a book for those “who keep the spirit of youth alive in them; of life, sunshine, running water, woodlands, dusty roads, winter firesides.” So wrote Kenneth Grahame of his timeless tale of Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad, in their lyrical world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, a world which is both beautiful and benevolently ordered. But it is also a world threatened by dark forces—”the Terror of the Wild Wood” with its “wicked little faces” and “glances of malice and hatred”—and defended by the mysterious Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

    In the end, Grahame triumphantly succeeds in conveying his most precious theme: the miracle of loyalty and friendship. This tale of four friends and their adventures is a timeless classic that will inspire and delight listeners of all ages.